TO INFO: OF UYIRE/DILSE
TO INFO: OF UYIRE/DILSE
Film: Dil Se (Hindi)
Stars Shah Rukh Khan, Manisha Koirala, Preethi Zinta
Lyrics Gulzar (Hindi)
Director Mani Ratnam
Producer India Talkies (Bharat Shah)
Label Venus (Hindi)
Year July 1998
Chaiyya chaiyya (Sukhvinder Singh, Sapna Awasthi)
Jiya jale jaan jale (Lata Mangeshkar, M G Sreekumar)
lyr: Gulzar and Girish Pulthencheri
Dil Se re (A R Rahman, Anuradha Sriram, Anupama)
E Ajnabi (Udit Narayan, Mahalakshmi)
Thayya thayya (Sukhvinder Singh) Lyr: Gulzar and Tejpaul Kour, Remix programming: Yak Bondy
Satrangi re (Sonu Nigam, Kavita Krishnamurthy)
Musicians
Bass Guitar: Guy Pratt on Dil se re
Bass Guitar: Keith Peters on ChhaiyyaaN ChhaiyyaaN
Flamenco Guitar: John Themis on Satrangi re
Percussion: Sivamani
Dilruba: Saroja
Santoor: Seenu
Harmony: Ganga, Kanchana, Febi, Seji, Anto, Chandran, Shreenivas, Noell James
Producer: Madras Talkies
Release Date: Jul 24 1998
Songs
thaiyya thaiyya (Sukhvindar Singh, Subha)
nenjinile nenjinile (S Janaki)
sandhosha kanneere (A R Rahman, Anuradha, Febi Mani, Anupama)
poongkaatrile (Unnimenon, Swarnalatha)
thaiyya thaiyya (Hariharan, Sreenivas, Subha)
en uyire (Sreenivas, Sujatha)
Chhaiyan Chhaiyan swept the 1999 Filmfare awards in the music category.
Best Music Director: AR Rahman for Chhaiyan chhaiyan from Dil Se
Best Male Playback Singer: Sukhwinder Singh for Chhaiyan chhaiyan from Dil Se
Best Lyrics: Gulzar for Chhaiyan chhaiyan from Dil Se
Best Choreography: Farah Khan for Chhaiyan chhaiyan from Dil Se
Mani Ratnam says:
"When the movie "Dil Se" was 75% complete I showed the film to Rahman. He saw it and quickly grasped the mood of the film. The next day he had the title song ready. It was purely instinctive." - from Kumgumam
Lata Mangeshkar says:
He records with me during the daytime... when my voice is fresh. I don't like recording at night. And I've heard that Rahman records mostly in the night. But he made an exception for me. When an artiste shows such consideration for another artiste, it feels good. Aur kaam bhi achha hota hai. Rahman doesn't take long over his recordings. Jiya jale was recorded in 40 minutes. I was sitting and humming an alaap for Jiya jale to myself. He overheard me and said, "Please continue singing. I want something like this for the song. Don't worry about where the song will end. You just keep singing." I just went on. Later when I heard the complete song, mujhe bahut achha laga. People who don't follow the language at all have even enjoyed the Malayalam passages in Jiya jale." - from Filmfare.com
For the Tamil song "nenjinilae nenjinilae", apparently ARR had tried the voices of Lata Mangeshkar, Sujatha, Chitra, and Harini before settling for S Janaki.